Seed Hunter Blog

Traveling due east out of Aleppo into a bright spring day, some friends and I recently took a wonderful jaunt through the Syrian desert and up the once mighty Euphrates to see the ruins of past civilizations.

“So what about pastures”. I guess the ambiguity is obvious here. For many folk living busy city lives this could be a statement that means “who gives a toss about pastures – a field of clover is no big deal to me – and besides, aren’t they the ones that produce that nasty little burr that sticks to my picnic blanket?” Well here’s the thing, if you enjoy milk on your corn flakes a cappuccino at lunch time and a big hairy steak for dinner; if you look for that 100% wool label when you are buying clothes then I guess “so what about pastures” should have a big fat question mark at the end. With this Blog article I want to inform you of why pasture genetic resources are so important and let you know about a national scandal that is occurring in Australia.

Financed with the assistance of Film Victoria & Film Finance Corporation Australia Limited.

Produced in association with ATSE Crawford Fund, AusAid, Australian Centre For International. Agricultural Research, Centre For Legumes In Mediterranean Agriculture, Grains Research And Development Corporation and International Centre For Agric. Research In The Dry Areas.